I often get asked, How do I find openly licensed images that I can use in my teaching materials, which I can also use towards the creation of OER? Openly licensed image repositories are quite commonplace these days. With a
Getting into my Research
I am embarking on my qualitative research project to complete my masters. Qualitative researchers aim to gather an in-depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern such behavior. Generally, I am interested in the transformational/developmental nature of the open education landscape. I have remarked that openness and a willingness to share, inherently, is […]
Integrating social media for classroom engagement
by Stanford EdTech Does this look familiar? How can we see this as an opportunity rather than a problem? On Tuesday last week I went to a talk from Prof Vivian Forssman; Director of the Learning and Technology Services (LTS) team
Celebrating One Year of Open Education Practice at UCT
We celebrated our one year anniversary on Friday afternoon in the African Studies Gallery at the University of Cape Town. It turned into a lovely affair with many contributors and other community members joining to celebrate the first year of
OpenContent Celebratory Tea – Meet the OER UCT Team
During our monthly tea we officially celebrated the completion of the OER UCT Project. Fortunately, the project shall continue on its trajectory, supporting and advising academics on sharing open educational resources, as we have funding to continue our work to
OpenContent Search – What are people looking for?
I created the wordle above using the search terms which have been submitted to the UCT OpenContent website. The larger the word, the more often it is being searched in the directory. I find it fascinating to see what
Join us to celebrate UCT OpenContent…One Year On
Open tools, open source, open education and open mindsets. 365 days of openness + 673 ways of sharing = 1 goal of open education for all In February 2011 we celebrated our one year anniversary of OpenContent UCT. We have